Drop Dead Diva

- Season 1

(2009)

When beautiful-but-vapid model wannabe Deb has a fatal car accident, she suddenly finds herself in front of Heaven's gatekeeper, Fred, who declares her a self-centered "zero." Outraged, she attempts to persuade Fred to return her to her shallow existence but is accidentally relegated to the body of the recently deceased Jane Bingum. A brilliant, thoughtful and plus-size attorney with a loyal assistant, Teri, Jane has always lived in the shadow of her more comely colleagues whereas Deb has always relied on her external beauty. Now, by a twist of fate and a bolt of ...

Deb discovers what life is like for Jane in her body as she takes on a case defending a cocktail waitress who is fired after she gains 50 lbs. Grayson and Kim represent a man in a divorce but the only thing he wants from back from his wife is his kidney.

Jane's past catches up with her when a case from the prior year is up for retrial. Kim and Grayson sue a shrink who "cured" their client's husband of his multiple personalities, only she got rid of the wrong one.

David Beckham is Jane's new case. Then Deb's mother arrives, needing a lawyer for her divorce, so Jane wants to represent her. And it can only be done by utilizing the Chinese Wall.

Rookie Grayson was looking forward to be Jane's second chair in the defense of dating site boss Barry Schuester, who is accused of aiding in ruining clients' marriages, but Kim takes first chair. Jane must counsel pro bono Michael Fernandez, who is offered a meager $15,000 state settlement after ten years of wrongful imprisonment as D.A. Callahan chose for electoral purposes to look no further for the real criminal, who meanwhile confessed and died. The board rules however to award nothing, so now they must sue the prosecutor's office. Fred finally gets noticed by ...

A woman arrives at Jane's office. At her heels, the police. She skipped bail as a teen and changed her identity, which has just been blown. Jane will defend the woman not only in court, but also to her husband, who feels betrayed.

Kim - and the firm - get sued for sexual harassment. Jane's new client is suing a weight loss program owner because the program causes heart problems. Also, suddenly Fred is gone and nobody remembers him except Jane. Why?

Grayson refuses to help Kim sue a bridesmaid for infidelity with the groom hours before the ceremony, yet she perseveres by the angle that the $10,000 wedding dress was 'made useless', but the groom still holds a crucial vote. Deb shyly accepts hot Brian Young's invitation to attend Jane's class reunion, only to find he's as gay as charming. Deb's client Brandon Tharpe asked for her, bot the boss, hoping she would understand his carpe diem attitude, which even his son claims to constitute a madness compromising their major lawn mowers manufacturing firm, which he ...

Jane gets politely directed out of a women's clothes store that doesn't stock her size. She sues them, even though she realizes the judge may throw the case out of court. Parker's old friend comes to ask legal help from him.

The New Jane discovers another friend of the Previous Jane, Judge Summers, and finds out Jane gave her a bad advice. Kim's client insists on Grayson taking her case. Someone very welcome returns to Jane, but it creates problems.

Grayson and Kim are puzzled that boss Parker, whom a client demands to plead his case personally against a disgruntled ex-employee who discredits his firm's chocolate snack, demands both of them to 'assist', in fact leaves the pleading them, so Grayson resorts to a daring pep-talk. Jane meets 'her' (not Deb's) self-invited mother Elaine Bingum and most learn to know her as it goes. Fred finds himself temporarily homeless as well as neglected by Stacey and takes Elaine's advice to try dating around, while Tony Nicastro dates Jane, who also pleads the case of the ...

A famous model goes berserk. Turns out her assets are frozen because her husband is missing. She hires Jane to represent her. Grayson and Kim take on a pro bono case of a woman who is being forced to sell her house.

As Stacey helps Grayson represent a lingerie model who was fired after having surgery for breast cancer, Jane is assigned to represent a young baseball star.